Martha Grimes Quotes

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Try honest to see things from the other person's point of view.

Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Why should I hate someone on the basis of their religion, when I can take a little time to get to know them and hate them for a myriad of real reasons.

Before you Judge me, Try hard to Love me

Respecting differences is very difficult.

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.